Module B: Digital Electronic Systems Design

Designing of digital system: description at RTL, partitioning to control logic and datapath circuit, implementation and integration of both parts. 

Embedded IP (Intellectual Property) cores: processors, memory circuits, communication units. graphical processor units, neural cores. Usage of soft processor cores in programmable devices. 

Memory structures: principle of operation and implementation. Communication between circuit block: I2C, CAN, USB, PCI, IrDA, Bluetooth. 

Hardware and software co-design and modelling of circuit functionality in high-level description languages: SystemC, SpecC, UML. 

Design cycle and computer tools for circuit design. Feasibilty analysis and partitioning to hardware and software part. Optimization of hardware-software co-design cycle. 

Examples of design and implementation of digital systems: digital camera, smartphone, cirtuits for AI applications,  modem, set-top box. 

Designing of digital system: description at RTL, partitioning to control logic and datapath circuit, implementation and integration of both parts.

Embedded IP (Intellectual Property) cores: processors, memory circuits, communication units. Usage of soft processor cores in programmable devices.

Memory structures: principle of operation and implementation. Communication between circuit block: I2C, CAN, USB, PCI, IrDA, Bluetooth.

Hardware and software co-design and modelling of circuit functionality in high-level description languages: SystemC, SpecC, UML.

Design cycle and computer tools for circuit design. Feasibilty analysis and partitioning to hardware and software part. Optimization of hardware-software co-design cycle.

Examples of design and implementation of digital systems: digital camera, JPEG encoder, MPEG4 encoder, modem, set-top box.

Lectures and tutorials.